{"id":2859,"date":"2018-11-14T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2018-11-14T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:55:37","slug":"blockchain-units-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/blockchain-units-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain units now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We commenced the development of new units in Blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/blockchain-units\/\">in July<\/a>. I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that these units are now available to centres. Two new units were developed:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files\/hn\/J1GV34.pdf\">Blockchain (SCQF Level 7)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files\/hn\/J1GW35.pdf\">Blockchain (SCQF Level 8)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Level 7 unit is non-specialist but it&#8217;s particularly appropriate for business, computing or financial services learners. However, I think, any learner would benefit from understanding the principles of this important, new technology. The Level 8 unit is specialist and more suitable to those with a vocational interest in computer science or fintech. We plan to develop an Assessment Support Pack for the Level 7 unit (but not the Level 8 unit).<\/p>\n<p>I would expect these new units to feature in some of the awards coming out of the current <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/hn-review-update-2\/\">HN Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:caitlin.boyle@sqa.org.uk\">contact Caitlin<\/a> if you want to know more about the units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We commenced the development of new units in Blockchain in July. I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that these units are now available to centres. Two new units were developed: Blockchain (SCQF Level 7) Blockchain (SCQF Level 8). The Level 7 unit is non-specialist but it&#8217;s particularly appropriate for business, computing or financial services learners. However, I think, any learner would benefit from understanding the principles of this important, new technology. The Level 8 unit is specialist and more suitable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}